Running an iMac with OS X 10.9 and Outlook for Mac 2011, both full updated.

Outlook for Mac 2011 has one exchange mailbox along with an archive folder in the "On my computer" section.

Suddently Outlook indicates it needs to rebuild the identity but then fails.  I'm trying to simply create a new identity and I've added the Exchange account w/no issues but am unsure how to add the "On my computer" archive.  When I open the original identity, Outlook wants to rebuild the database after about 10 seconds which doesn't give me enough time to do an export and the rebuild fails, over and over.

I tried copying the original identity folder from /Users/theuser/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Outlook 2011 Identities to the corresponding new identity and Outlook doesn't show any of the archive (not sure it's even supposed to work that way?).

Any suggestions or tips?

Thanks in advance,

Greg